Post by Jester on Feb 4, 2012 6:30:31 GMT -5
Ok, I am the first to admit, I cry a lot at films. I buy into films maybe a little too much sometimes and man, sometimes they hit me hard.
So I was thinking about my DVD collection and I thought I'd make a short list of the films that hit me the hardest.
I'm just gonna assume that no one has seen these films so I can talk about them. To be honest, we're all film buffs here so you've probably seen these all.
Spoilers...
- Awakenings
(I forget the character's names)
Robert De Niro and Robin Williams gave career best performances in this film based on a true story. De Niro's performance is the one that nails my heart to a cross in this film. He is simply stunning.
The film is based on the true story of a British neurologist, fictionalised into an American in the film, and his discovery of a drug which could unlock catonic patients.
De Niro plays the first subject that this drug is tested on. He was a young boy when he became catonic, so now 30 years later he is shocked to find he is a man.
At first, its a beautiful story of De Niro's character bringing joy into people's life blah blah blah, but then BAM! The drug slowly begins to stop working... Thus the tears begin to roll.
One particular scene has De Niro trying to read a book but he can't keep his head from swinging side to side. It sounds silly but its genuinely heart breaking. De Niro gives a career best filled with twitches, fits, and those child like facial expressions.
Another scene which gets the tears rolling; De Niro begins to see this young lady who is visiting her mother in another part of this hospital. At first he lies to her and tells her he is visiting someone too, rather than admit he is actually a patient. So they start seeing each other. Then when the drug slowly begins to stop working and the fits and tics set in, he goes to tell her he can't see her anymore. He literally can't keep still (kinda looks like he is having a stroke). He tells her the truth and goes to leave, but the girl gets up, holds him and begins to dance with him in the middle of this hospital canteen. For one brief moment, the dancing seems to calm him. Typing it has actually got me a little teary
Perfect date movie btw. Used it three times and each time the girl has been in bits all tucked up in my manly *cough* arms.
- Boys Don't Cry
Damn Hilary Swank. Her performance in this film, especially the rape scene, makes me bull like a baby.
Another true story of a woman who becomes a man... and falls in love with a girl in the process.
I won't say too much about this one, other than it is filled with brilliant trailer trash performances, features one of the most touching sex scenes ever, and it's conclusion will leave you will a lump in your throat and make you want to run outside and hug every tranny you can get your hands on.
- Three Colours: Blue
Possibly THE single most depressing film ever made. First time I watched it, as soon as those credits rolled, I did question why I was alive.
Blu is the first part of The Colours trilogy by the Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski. The trilogy features a anti-tragedy, an anti-comedy, and an anti-romance. Blue is the anti tragedy.
Set in Paris, the film is about a woman whose husband and child are killed in a car accident. Suddenly set free from her familial bonds, she attempts to cut herself off from everything and live in isolation from her former ties, but finds that she cannot free herself from human connections.
In some respects, its an unusual film. Riddled with metaphors and scenes which feature no dialogue, but speak thousands of words, Blue is a deeply spiritual film. It's hard to pick out a certain scene which brings those tears to my eyes, but just in general this film honestly made me question why I bother living when life is filled with such tragedy. Ah the power of cinema.
- Schindler's List
Need I say anymore?
But the film that gets me the most, and a film I genuinely consider one of the most beautiful films ever made---
- Life is Beautiful
Nothing has warmed my heart (and then smashed it into pieces) than this film. Such a beautiful film.
Life is Beautiful splits into two films. The first half is this wonderful amusing story of this lovely hopelessly romantic man who sets out to woe the girl of his dreams. Very little dialogue is necessary and it feels almost a throw back to early cinema where acting was about expression rather than words. Some of the most silly slapstick yet romantic 'set ups' feature in the first half of this film, which can't help but leave you with a stupid grin on your face.
Then comes the second part... Fast forward a few years, our hero has won the girl and has a little son to show for it.
But then the Nazi's invade...
Father and son soon find themselves trapped in a concentration camp. Our hero convinces his son that its all just a game and that they must get 1000 points in order to win a tank. What happens next is literally the most moving thing I think I've ever seen on screen.
I've copied this from wiki because I'm gonna cry just thinking about it;
Guido (the father, our hero) convinces Giosuè (his son) that the camp guards are mean because they want the tank for themselves and that all the other children are hiding in order to win the game. He puts off Giosuè's requests to end the game and return home by convincing him that they are in the lead for the tank. Despite being surrounded by rampant misery, sickness and death, Giosuè does not question this fiction because of his father's convincing performance and his own innocence.
Guido maintains this story right until the end when, in the chaos caused by the American advance, he tells his son to stay in a sweatbox until everybody has left, this being the final test before the tank is his. Guido goes off to look for Dora but is caught and shot to death by a Nazi soldier.
Giosuè manages to survive, reunite with his mother, and even thinks he has won the game when an American tank arrives to liberate the camp. In the film, Giosuè is four and a half years old; however, both the beginning and ending of the film are narrated by an older Giosuè recalling his father's story of sacrifice for his family.
So back from wiki, towards the end, Guido has just hidden his son and he is rushing around looking for his wife when a Nazi solider clocks him. The solider grabs him and marches him off. Guido passes the container in which his son is hiding, and knowing that his son is watching, he pulls a silly face and does a silly march... seconds later he is out of view and we hear a gun shot. This moment man....
So admit it. What films make you cry?
So I was thinking about my DVD collection and I thought I'd make a short list of the films that hit me the hardest.
I'm just gonna assume that no one has seen these films so I can talk about them. To be honest, we're all film buffs here so you've probably seen these all.
Spoilers...
- Awakenings
(I forget the character's names)
Robert De Niro and Robin Williams gave career best performances in this film based on a true story. De Niro's performance is the one that nails my heart to a cross in this film. He is simply stunning.
The film is based on the true story of a British neurologist, fictionalised into an American in the film, and his discovery of a drug which could unlock catonic patients.
De Niro plays the first subject that this drug is tested on. He was a young boy when he became catonic, so now 30 years later he is shocked to find he is a man.
At first, its a beautiful story of De Niro's character bringing joy into people's life blah blah blah, but then BAM! The drug slowly begins to stop working... Thus the tears begin to roll.
One particular scene has De Niro trying to read a book but he can't keep his head from swinging side to side. It sounds silly but its genuinely heart breaking. De Niro gives a career best filled with twitches, fits, and those child like facial expressions.
Another scene which gets the tears rolling; De Niro begins to see this young lady who is visiting her mother in another part of this hospital. At first he lies to her and tells her he is visiting someone too, rather than admit he is actually a patient. So they start seeing each other. Then when the drug slowly begins to stop working and the fits and tics set in, he goes to tell her he can't see her anymore. He literally can't keep still (kinda looks like he is having a stroke). He tells her the truth and goes to leave, but the girl gets up, holds him and begins to dance with him in the middle of this hospital canteen. For one brief moment, the dancing seems to calm him. Typing it has actually got me a little teary
Perfect date movie btw. Used it three times and each time the girl has been in bits all tucked up in my manly *cough* arms.
- Boys Don't Cry
Damn Hilary Swank. Her performance in this film, especially the rape scene, makes me bull like a baby.
Another true story of a woman who becomes a man... and falls in love with a girl in the process.
I won't say too much about this one, other than it is filled with brilliant trailer trash performances, features one of the most touching sex scenes ever, and it's conclusion will leave you will a lump in your throat and make you want to run outside and hug every tranny you can get your hands on.
- Three Colours: Blue
Possibly THE single most depressing film ever made. First time I watched it, as soon as those credits rolled, I did question why I was alive.
Blu is the first part of The Colours trilogy by the Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski. The trilogy features a anti-tragedy, an anti-comedy, and an anti-romance. Blue is the anti tragedy.
Set in Paris, the film is about a woman whose husband and child are killed in a car accident. Suddenly set free from her familial bonds, she attempts to cut herself off from everything and live in isolation from her former ties, but finds that she cannot free herself from human connections.
In some respects, its an unusual film. Riddled with metaphors and scenes which feature no dialogue, but speak thousands of words, Blue is a deeply spiritual film. It's hard to pick out a certain scene which brings those tears to my eyes, but just in general this film honestly made me question why I bother living when life is filled with such tragedy. Ah the power of cinema.
- Schindler's List
Need I say anymore?
But the film that gets me the most, and a film I genuinely consider one of the most beautiful films ever made---
- Life is Beautiful
Nothing has warmed my heart (and then smashed it into pieces) than this film. Such a beautiful film.
Life is Beautiful splits into two films. The first half is this wonderful amusing story of this lovely hopelessly romantic man who sets out to woe the girl of his dreams. Very little dialogue is necessary and it feels almost a throw back to early cinema where acting was about expression rather than words. Some of the most silly slapstick yet romantic 'set ups' feature in the first half of this film, which can't help but leave you with a stupid grin on your face.
Then comes the second part... Fast forward a few years, our hero has won the girl and has a little son to show for it.
But then the Nazi's invade...
Father and son soon find themselves trapped in a concentration camp. Our hero convinces his son that its all just a game and that they must get 1000 points in order to win a tank. What happens next is literally the most moving thing I think I've ever seen on screen.
I've copied this from wiki because I'm gonna cry just thinking about it;
Guido (the father, our hero) convinces Giosuè (his son) that the camp guards are mean because they want the tank for themselves and that all the other children are hiding in order to win the game. He puts off Giosuè's requests to end the game and return home by convincing him that they are in the lead for the tank. Despite being surrounded by rampant misery, sickness and death, Giosuè does not question this fiction because of his father's convincing performance and his own innocence.
Guido maintains this story right until the end when, in the chaos caused by the American advance, he tells his son to stay in a sweatbox until everybody has left, this being the final test before the tank is his. Guido goes off to look for Dora but is caught and shot to death by a Nazi soldier.
Giosuè manages to survive, reunite with his mother, and even thinks he has won the game when an American tank arrives to liberate the camp. In the film, Giosuè is four and a half years old; however, both the beginning and ending of the film are narrated by an older Giosuè recalling his father's story of sacrifice for his family.
So back from wiki, towards the end, Guido has just hidden his son and he is rushing around looking for his wife when a Nazi solider clocks him. The solider grabs him and marches him off. Guido passes the container in which his son is hiding, and knowing that his son is watching, he pulls a silly face and does a silly march... seconds later he is out of view and we hear a gun shot. This moment man....
So admit it. What films make you cry?
